This is a frightening book. Frightening because in it the history of a crime is dissected with truly ice-cold objectivity. This is a stunning book. Stunning because, surprisingly, for the first time in 20th-century Russian detective literature the criminal turns out to be, above all, a person.
This is a wonderful book. Simply because reading it is sometimes painful, sometimes extraordinarily difficult—but from the first to the last page, it is Unspeakably Captivating. Don’t miss it!…